Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
JAMES MADISONThe purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.
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A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
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America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity.
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The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.
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It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
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War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
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The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.
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War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
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